From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 31 17:01:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA17921 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 17:01:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA17916 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 17:01:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-88.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.88]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA32587 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:01:43 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA08922 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:01:42 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199711010101.TAA08922@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: X server performance and video cards From: dkelly@HiWAAY.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:01:41 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Am thinking about a new video card. Any pointers of relative performance of one card versus another? Have heard the Matrox Millenium family is well liked and very fast, but where/how is this quantified? http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/index.html says: > In general, the S3 based boards have been the best supported, followed > by the ATI based cards, however that is no guarantee that any specific > board will work. Is that still the prevailing wisdom? I've seen S3-Virge-based cards dirt cheap, is there a risk with one of those? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.